Gateway’s XHD3000 Now Works Under Linux (Somehow)

When I reviewed Gateway’s XHD3000 a few months ago, I complained that Linux would not work with it at the native resolution. To me, that was a big problem, since I occasionally benchmark under Linux on our test rigs. Other than that though, the monitor was fantastic.

Well, sometime between then and now, the problem fixed. For fun, I hooked up the XHD3000 to my main machine, just to play around with dual-display possibilities, but in doing so, I expected the NVIDIA driver to default to 1280×800… the same resolution I’ve always been stuck to. I was quite surprised when I saw the native resolution of 2560×1600 become available, though, and applying it delivered the promised result.

I also tested the monitor by itself afterwards to make sure that it wasn’t only enabled because I had it as a secondary display, and it again worked just fine. So we might very-well be at a point where all 30-inch displays should work under Linux with little issue, and from what I can tell, we might have NVIDIA to thank. For those interested in the monitor in question, you can click to read the review below. I liked it enough to buy one, which may very well speak for itself.

Gateway, not content to let Dell and others hog the limelight in the display market, have recently launched their XHD3000 monitor. It offers a wide-range of connectivity options along with bright picture and an incredible upscaler. When said and done, this is one model we can heartily recommend.

Source: Gateway XHD3000 Review